Thu 01.06.2023 | 19:30Girl (2023)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Adura Onashile
United Kingdom, 2023, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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InfoEleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama’s thirst for life and her need to grow and develop challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
Fri 02.06.2023 | 20:00The Kings of the World (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Laura Mora
Colombia, Luxembourg, Mexico, France, Norway, 2022, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano, five street kids from Medellin, five kings without a kingdom, with no law and no family, looking for The Promised Land. The five embark on a trip to claim a piece of land that Rá inherited after a long process of land restitution. A subversive tale about a savage and lovely clan that transits between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere where anything can happen.
Sat 03.06.2023 | 18:30Ademoka´s Education (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
France, Kazakhstan, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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This is the story of a teenage illegal migrant girl Ademoka who lives in Kazakhstan and is forced to be a beggar to survive. But at the same time, she’s bright and talented and dreams of studying all the time. Her illegal status and absence of citizenship is a serious obstacle for that. At some point, Ademoka gets a chance to receive an education and help comes from the unexpected side. The one least believable to be supportive, an alcoholic loser, Ahab, stretches out a helping hand…
Sat 03.06.2023 | 20:00Autobio-Pamphlet (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Ashish Bende
India, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A satirical story about Ashish, a so-called “lower caste” boy from the Dalit community in 1990s Maharashtra, who falls in love with his classmate Srushti, a girl from the so-called “upper caste” Brahmin community. We follow their story and the story of the dramatic socio-political transformations around them, their families, city, and India.
Sun 04.06.2023 | 19:30Mountain Onion (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Kazakhstan, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Eleven-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.
Mon 05.06.2023 | 17:00Metronom (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Alexandru Belc
France, Romania, 2022, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Bucharest, 1972. Ana (17) dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives...
Mon 05.06.2023 | 17:30The Quiet Girl (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Colm Bairéad
Ireland, 2022, 95 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Cáit is a 9-year-old girl from an over-crowded, dysfunctional and impoverished family. When her pregnant mother’s due date approaches, Cáit is sent to live with distant relatives. Without knowing when she will return home, she is left at the strangers’ house with only the clothes she is wearing. In the care of the Kinsellas, Cáit blossoms and discovers a new way of living. But in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.
Mon 05.06.2023 | 19:00No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Alain Ughetto
Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, 2022, 70 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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It’s the start of the 20th century in Ughettera, Northern Italy. Living in the region had become very difficult and the Ughetto family’s dream of a better life abroad. Legend has it that Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps starting a new life in France, thus changing the destiny of his beloved family forever. His grandson travels back in time revisiting their history.
Mon 05.06.2023 | 20:00Winter Boy (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
France, 2022, 122 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Lucas is 17 when his teenage world is suddenly shattered. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 19:30Mountain Onion (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Eldar Shibanov
Kazakhstan, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Eleven-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.
Tue 06.06.2023 | 20:00Daughter of Rage (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Laura Baumeister
France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Nicaragua, 2022, 91 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Nicaragua, today. Maria (11) lives with her mother Lilibeth at the edge of a garbage dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local thug. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth must go to the city and drops Maria off at a recycling center where she must stay and work. But days pass and she doesn’t return. Maria feels lost, bewildered and angry. One night, Maria meets Tadeo, an imaginative new friend who is determined to help her to reunite with her mother.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 14:30Close (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Lukas Dhont
Belgium, Netherlands, France, 2022, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Léo and Rémi are close. They have boyhood adventures, share the world and almost every moment together. But they're reaching an age when things start to have names. What do they have, friendship or love? School starts after the holidays and thus start the nosy questions and ironic remarks of their classmates. As childhood ends, adulthood intrudes inexorably into the two friends' previously carefree world.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 17:00Little Ones (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Julie Lerat-Gersant
France, 2022, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Pregnant, 16-year-old Camille is placed in a home for teen mothers by a family court judge. Separated from her own loving yet toxic mother, she strikes up a friendship with Alison, another rather immature underage mother, and rebels against the social worker Nadine, a passionate, albeit blasé authority figure. These encounters will radically change her destiny.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 19:30The Young Arsonists (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Sheila Pye
Canada, 2022, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Set in the ‘80s amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, four restless adolescent girls band together to escape their troubled lives and patriarchal constraints by reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own. When their secret world is threatened, the girls’ relationships are tested to an extreme.
Wed 07.06.2023 | 20:00The Kings of the World (2022)
Section: Festival Laurels from around the World
Directed by: Laura Mora
Colombia, Luxembourg, Mexico, France, Norway, 2022, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
Score:
Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano, five street kids from Medellin, five kings without a kingdom, with no law and no family, looking for The Promised Land. The five embark on a trip to claim a piece of land that Rá inherited after a long process of land restitution. A subversive tale about a savage and lovely clan that transits between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere where anything can happen.